An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for being "one of the ...

The Giant Woolly Rat measures 85 cm and weighs nearly 2 kg. New Guinean Woolly rats, together with the giant cloud rats of the Philippines, are the largest murine rodents in the world.

The Vangunu giant rat can rip through coconuts with its teeth. Twice the size of a common rat, researchers feared that Uromys vika had gone extinct after long being listed as critically endangered ...

Non-profit APOPO is training African giant pouched rats to help in the global fight against the multi-billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade. Here, a rat on a lead searches for concealed wildlife ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are warning that cities across the US and beyond are becoming far ...

The data collected spanned an average of 12 years and comprised rat sightings, trappings and inspection reports. It revealed “significant increasing trends” in rat numbers in 11 of the 16 cities, ...